They were using static linking by default though. You could always switch the linker to dynamic linking and get those sweet 20-something KiB binaries. MFC with

They were using static linking by default though. You could always switch the linker to dynamic linking and get those sweet 20-something KiB binaries. MFC with C++ was using dynamic linking by default, but you could always switch to static and see the binary bloat to several MiBs in size. So if you do a proper comparison, there's really not much difference between them.